South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts47—Interference with homing pigeons
(a)
without lawful authority, kills, injures or takes any homing pigeon; or
(b)
enters upon any land for the purpose of killing, injuring or taking any
homing pigeon without lawful authority,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: $250.
(2) Upon the
conviction of a person for an offence against subsection (1), the court
may order the convicted person to pay to the owner of the pigeon killed,
injured or taken in contravention of that subsection a sum equal to the value
of that pigeon.
(3) It is a defence to
a charge of killing, injuring or taking a homing pigeon contrary to
subsection (1) to prove that the defendant was the owner or occupier of
improved or cultivated land, or a person acting under the instructions of any
such owner or occupier, and killed, injured or took the pigeon while it was
actually upon that land or any building on that land.
(4) In this
section—
"homing pigeon" means a pigeon having a ring affixed or attached to either or
both legs;
"take" includes to ensnare or catch.